On Complicity and Compromise

by Lepora, Chiara; Goodin, Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9780199677900
• ISBN10: 0199677905
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-06-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Chiara Lepora trained as a medical practitioner at the Universities of Pavia and Lisbon and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, she has worked with MSF in various capacities across Africa and the Middle East. An interactive tutorial that she wrote underpins the e-learning software used by the World Health Organisation and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for clinical management of rape in humanitarian emergencies. After a 2008-2010 mid-career Fellowship in Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health, Lepora taught Global Health Affairs at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies of the University of Denver for a year before returning to MSF. She currently works with Medecins sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders as Programme Manager responsible for operations across the Middle East.

Bob Goodin is political philosopher with appointments in both the Department of Government at the University of Essex and the School of Philosophy at Australian National University. He is founding editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy, coeditor of the British Journal of Political Science and General Editor of the eleven-volume Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. A Fellow of the British Academy, he has given the Dewey Lecture at the University of Chicago Law School, the Edmund Burke Lecture at Trinity College, Dublin, and the Lee Lecture at All Souls College, Oxford. His coauthored book Discretionary Time (CUP 2008) won the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. He was Senior Research Fellow in Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health during 2009-2010.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: A Messy Moral Landscape, Chiara Lepora and Robert E. Goodin
2. Compromise as a Template, Chiara Lepora and Robert E. Goodin
3. Complicity and Its Conceptual Cousins, Chiara Lepora and Robert E. Goodin
4. Grading Engagement with Wrongdoing: Dimensions of Difference, Chiara Lepora and Robert E. Goodin
5. Responsibility for Complicity: A Minimum Threshold, Chiara Lepora and Robert E. Goodin
6. Assessing Complicit Actions: A General Framework, Chiara Lepora and Robert E. Goodin
7. Organizational Complicity: Rwandan Refugee Camps, Chiara Lepora and Robert E. Goodin
8. Individual Complicity: The Tortured Patient, Chiara Lepora and Joseph Millum
9. Conclusion: Complicity is as Complicity Does, Chiara Lepora and Robert E. Goodin
Index